Category: Motherhood

it was so incredibly refreshing yesterday for me to write those honest shorts about my life, i was thinking in “these are the days of..” statements all day long. here are more. i think i would be happy to do this more. reality in 2012. these are the days of a toddler screaming bloody murder […]

these are the days of drool and giggles and crusty eyes. these are the days of not wanting to get dressed in the morning and wearing my pajamas 48 hours straight. these are the days of looking at my bible more than i read it. these are the days of shuffling to the crib too […]

boys at the park, girls at home. i can hear the littlest cooing in her crib, up from her morning nap. only a few moments left for writing. today is new year’s eve. tomorrow is oshogatsu and the beginning of something new. oh, how i am ready for something new! three kids brought me to […]

jones was sitting in the sand, dumping scoops of it onto his pants, wiggling his shoe-less toes as babies toddled around him with shovels and older kids kicked soccer balls back and forth. he seemed to be totally enraptured by the feeling of heaviness the pile of sand created. after a while, he ran over […]

i’ve been doing a lot of resting, relaxing, and being quiet the last few days. there are still some things on my pre-baby checklist (and even more on bryan’s!), but i feel rather blase about actually finishing them. i’m pulling into myself and thinking a lot about birth, surrender, gratefulness, and being needy. i’ve been […]

*there is a plea for advice, but not till the end of the post — if you can wait it out that long.* 😉 when my almost-one-year-old dropped down to one nap a day, i gave up the dreams and silly notions that he might be one of those children who naps till kindergarten starts. […]

this originally started out as a comment to the last post, and as it grew, i thought that i might as well just make a new post. 🙂 not very coherent, just sharing some of my experience. i think a lot of my issues with babywise were underlying heart issues that made it virtually impossible […]

Just fyi, I finished off the lemon loaf this morning, with some nice java from the Roaster. It was lovely. Jones is napping and I laid down on the couch for a bit to catch my breath from the morning’s activities and think about how I probably won’t be able to appreciate the special things […]

:: if my two-year-old on any given day is napping waaay too long, but i don’t want to get him up because i’m enjoying the quiet and the time to myself, am i selfish? :: if i spend all my efforts and energy in household and mothering duties and have nothing left to give to […]